This is on Friday...sorry for the delay 
. So I'm just driving up the street....actually going the speed limit (20 mph) and out of nowhere this girl pulls out into the street at a 90 degree angle to the flow of traffic, crosses over from my left and hits me, pushing me into the curb. So to picture this, her right front hit my left front. She was driving a white VW Jetta and said she was making a U-Turn ...pulled into a little widened area on her side of the street, waited for a bus to pass, then wheeled around as fast as she could...and boom.
The damage? (All relations to direction are from looking at the back of the car) Front bumper is toast...ripped a hole the size of a basketball in it...crushed the left front panel...crushed the CAI underneath it (the bypass valve crumpled like a piece of cardboard)...crushed the front left headlight housing...ripped the underbody covering under the bumper out. No chassy damage, or bent pieces that I can tell.
Her car...ripped her bumper completely off, hood damage, her grille was laying on the ground....right front light crushed...side damage, some right front suspension damage.
And this is all from not looking before pulling an illegal U-Turn. If you're gonna break the law do it safely.
So why am I not crying over this? Well, after getting my car back from the body shop two days before for getting the hood painted for free because the service dept scratched it...I was asking about getting my front bumper repaired (it was backed into). the original estimate of $300 ballooned to $650...to which I politely said "yeah fucking right". So I decided not to do that work, and drove home...trying to figure out how in the world I was going to fix that bumper...well, problem solved. New front bumper.
Second, a pothole had seriously destroyed my right front rim...to get it fixed was $200...now it's free.
Third, I was stupid enough not to wrap my CAI in Saran-wrap before installing it, so it was midly scratched. New CAI.
So I guess all in all it worked out. I'll have pictures tomorrow for you guys, now let's hear your thoughts.
Austin519
. So I'm just driving up the street....actually going the speed limit (20 mph) and out of nowhere this girl pulls out into the street at a 90 degree angle to the flow of traffic, crosses over from my left and hits me, pushing me into the curb. So to picture this, her right front hit my left front. She was driving a white VW Jetta and said she was making a U-Turn ...pulled into a little widened area on her side of the street, waited for a bus to pass, then wheeled around as fast as she could...and boom.The damage? (All relations to direction are from looking at the back of the car) Front bumper is toast...ripped a hole the size of a basketball in it...crushed the left front panel...crushed the CAI underneath it (the bypass valve crumpled like a piece of cardboard)...crushed the front left headlight housing...ripped the underbody covering under the bumper out. No chassy damage, or bent pieces that I can tell.
Her car...ripped her bumper completely off, hood damage, her grille was laying on the ground....right front light crushed...side damage, some right front suspension damage.
And this is all from not looking before pulling an illegal U-Turn
. If you're gonna break the law do it safely.So why am I not crying over this? Well, after getting my car back from the body shop two days before for getting the hood painted for free because the service dept scratched it...I was asking about getting my front bumper repaired (it was backed into). the original estimate of $300 ballooned to $650...to which I politely said "yeah fucking right". So I decided not to do that work, and drove home...trying to figure out how in the world I was going to fix that bumper...well, problem solved. New front bumper.
Second, a pothole had seriously destroyed my right front rim...to get it fixed was $200...now it's free.
Third, I was stupid enough not to wrap my CAI in Saran-wrap before installing it, so it was midly scratched. New CAI.
So I guess all in all it worked out. I'll have pictures tomorrow for you guys, now let's hear your thoughts
.Austin519
